iris
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,504
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
iris is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie colorée de l’œil qui environne la prunelle et qui présente quelquefois des nuances circulaires et concentriques. Pronounced \i.ʁis\. It ranks #9,504 in French word frequency. Often confused with IRL and its.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | iris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for iris is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.ʁis\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,504 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for iris, with forms such as "iirs", "iriss", and "irris". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "IRL", "its", "IRM", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is iris, spelled I-R-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie colorée de l’œil qui environne la prunelle et qui présente quelquefois des nuances circulaires et concentriques.
- 2Système mécanique constitué de plaques assemblées en cercle, permettant par un mécanisme d’obturer l’ouverture centrale progressivement en lui conservant la forme d’un cercle.
- 3Genre de plantes monocotylédones à fleur de couleur vive et de bonne taille.
- 4La racine de cet iris dans ses emplois en parfumerie.
- 5Arc-en-ciel, en référence à Iris dans la mythologie grecque à laquelle ce phénomène est associé.
- 6Pierre d’iris, iris : Quartz irisé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iirs,iriss,irris,irsi,riis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "iris"
Frequency rank: #9,504 in French
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